Children juries in Dagestan

The aim of this work is to study the peculiarities of children’s injuries in Dagestan.

Methods. We analyzed the data of the State institution of the Republic of Dagestan Republican Medical Information and Analytical Center and the data of statistical reports of the Department of traumatology of the Republican Children’s clinical hospital named after N.M. Kuraev of the Makhachkala city. Various aspects of child’s injuries had been studied within the 2012-2015 years, taking into account the cause, age, sex, type of injury.

Results. The injury frequency takes up the 3rd place in the structure of Dagestan population’ mortality. The numbers of injuries increase as the age of children increase. The greatest number of injuries are among teenage age children that makes 47.7% from the total number of children who applied to the Department of traumatology. Street injuries are prevalent in summer, and it is 67% of all types of injuries at this time of year. The pattern of domestic injuries in Dagestan is not evenly distributed across the time of year. Most injuries occur in winter – 31% and in spring – 28%. Boys are twice as likely to be involved in accidents (68%) as girls (32%). The data obtained allow us to work out recommendations for the prevention of child’s injuries in Dagestan.

Conclusions. The predominant types of child’s injuries in Dagestan are street and household. Bruises and fractures, as well as wounds sharp, piercing, cutting objects are in the first place among children’s injuries.